Petrarch

Petrarch
Born	20 Julie 1304(1304-07-20) Arezzo, Italy
Dee'd	19 Julie 1374(1374-07-19) (aged 69) Arquà, Italy
Thrift	Scholar, poet
Naitionality	Italian
Period	Early Renaissance
Leeterar muivement	Renaissance humanism
Bairns	Giovanni (1337–1361) Francesca (born in 1343)
Relatives	Eletta Canigiani (mither) Ser Petracco (faither)

Francesco Petrarca (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]; 20 Julie 1304 – 19 Julie 1374), commonly anglicised as Petrarch, wis an Italian scholar an poet in Renaissance Italy, an ane o the earliest humanists. His rediskivery o Cicero's letters is eften creditit wi ineetiatin the 14t-century Renaissance. Petrarch is eften conseedert the foonder o Humanism. In the 16t century, Pietro Bembo creatit the model for the modren Italian leid based on Petrarch's warks, as weel as thae o Giovanni Boccaccio, an, tae a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch wad be later endorsed as a model for Italian style bi the Accademia della Crusca.

Petrarch's sonnets war admired an imitatit ootthrou Europe in the Renaissance an becam a model for lyrical poetry. He is an aw kent for bein the first tae develop the concept o the "Daurk Ages."

References

4. Massimo Colella, «Cantin le ninfe co’ soavi accenti». Per una definizione del petrarchismo di Veronica Gambara, in «Testo», 2022.